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Fires have been burning across northeastern Australia’s Cape York Peninsula since mid-September. This image shows the actively burning fires marked in yellow on a true-color Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) image from the Aqua satellite, captured on September 29, 2003.
Image courtesy Jesse Allen, based on data from the MODIS Rapid Response Team at NASA GSFC
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